Modiwl JXH-1043:Practical Research Skills

Ffeithiau’r Modiwl

Rhedir gan School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

10 Credyd neu 5 Credyd ECTS

Semester 2

Trefnydd:
Dr Sam Oliver

Amcanion cyffredinol

You will develop practical research skills that enable you to answer a research question(s) in a concise scientific report using data collection, analysis and interpretation skills learnt on the course. These research skills are essential to develop for future courses on your degree (e.g. project proposal, research project, dissertation, etc). They are also important to develop for most careers beyond University. Indeed, researchers work across all industries and their analysis and report writing skills are vital for employers.

Cynnwys cwrs

During the course, you will develop many research skills that includes developing your own research question and hypothesis; designing and completing data collections; performing and interpreting descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using SPSS; presenting statistics and data in tables and figures; and concise report writing.

Important: Module failure that prevents you passing the year will require resit assessment and attendance at Supplementary Assessment Week (exact date TBC but expected to be fourth week of July 2019)

Meini Prawf

trothwy

D- to D+ - Pass: Basic knowledge and limited understanding of research principles, design and statistics. Presentation of data is clear but may contain some errors. Statistical analysis is mostly correct. Only a basic interpretation of the statistical analysis is offered (e.g. limited discussion of practical significance). The work is organised but may contain some poor spelling and grammar.

ardderchog

A- to A - Excellent - Deep knowledge and understanding of research design, principles and statistics with excellent capacity to formulate and answer basic research questions. Excellent presentation of results and statistics. Correct statistics procedures performed with almost no statistics interpretation or calculation errors. Evidence of deeper understanding of some of the analyses (e.g. identification of assumptions and limitations, use of 1 or 2-tailed hypotheses, interpretation of the meaningfulness of the statistics). The statistical and practical findings of each analysis will be clear to the reader. The work is well organised and written with almost no typographical or grammar errors.

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C- to C+ - Good – A good grasp of research principles, design and statistics demonstrating adequate knowledge and understanding with the capacity to formulate and answer basic research questions. Presentation of the data is clear. Mostly correct statistical procedures performed. Reasonable interpretation of statistical analysis but mostly surface level understanding shown (e.g. only the main finding of each analysis). This work is well organised but may contain a few spelling or grammar errors.

Canlyniad dysgu

Be able to formulate and answer basic research questions

Be able to interpret the statistical outputs produced by SPSS

Be able to communicate data collected in a scientific report using appropriate statistics and figures or tables

Be able to collect data in a systematic manner

Be able to analyse data with descriptive and inferential statistics (e.g., mean and standard deviation, t-tests, correlation, simple regression, ANOVA) using SPSS for Windows

An individual scientific report from a student-led data collection. Students will use statistical tests to analyse data and answer hypotheses they developed. Exceeding or undershooting the word limit by >10% will result in a reduction of one categorical boundary, e.g. A- to B+

Adnoddau

Goblygiadau o ran adnoddau ar gyfer myfyrwyr

Students are advised to bring laptops to lectures so they can practice using statistical analysis program SPSS. It is advised students try to download this software ahead of starting the course. SPSS is free for students to download from Bangor University IT services. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/itservices/software-students.php.en. Note. SPSS may not work on some tablets.